Premium Content Against the advice of health experts and the government, Nationals Senator Matt Canavan has called for Australia to suspend the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The backbencher has claimed it is time to follow some European countries, who have temporarily paused use of the AstraZeneca jab pending an investigation into a small number of blood clot cases among people vaccinated. Germany, Italy and France have all announced they would be pausing their rollout of the vaccine pending an assessment from the European Medicines Agency (EMA). We should heed these concerns that European countries have a longer experience with the rollout of this (vaccine), he said.
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Beware the tides of March Crikey 15/03/2021 MARCHING ORDERS
Note: This story discusses sexual assault.
Thousands are expected to march on state and federal parliament houses today following a slew of government assault and harassment allegations, with
Guardian Australia reports that 5000 protesters, mostly women, took part in Perth’s rally yesterday.
Event organiser Dr Kate Ahmad explained in
Crikey last week that March4Justice is based in part on “dehumanising” responses to allegations against politicians, and protesters will deliver Parliament a petition with demands including a federal Gender Equality Act and strengthening of accountability for parliamentarians and judges in the
Sex Discrimination Act.
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